Makes: depends on the size of the cutter you use. I made 32 from about half the dough.

Eat this with: A mug of hot chocolate or a light coffee

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Ingredients:

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400 g plain flour

½ tsp salt

½ tsp baking powder

220 g butter, melted but warm

300 g brown sugar (granulated)

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

90 g cocoa powder

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Method:

Put the flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl and dry whisk them together. Set aside.

In another bowl, mix the warm melted butter and sugar together. The butter will melt the sugar granules slightly. This is good! Now add the eggs, vanilla extract and cocoa powder and mix well.

Add the flour mixture (a little at a time) to the cocoa mixture, stirring well to incorporate. Do the final mixing by hand. You should have a pretty solid chocolate dough at this stage.

Wrap in cling-wrap or zip-lock bags and chill for about one hour. The dough freezes well at this stage. I like to make little bags, so I can take them out even weeks later and bake small batches whenever a sugar craving comes calling.

When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 180º C. Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out gently to about ¼ inch thickness. Dust with a little flour so it doesn’t stick. Use cutters to cut into whatever sizes or shapes you wish.

Line a baking sheet with parchment and line up the cookies on it. They don’t spread at all, so you can fill up the tray with just a little space around each. Bake these for about 12 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Awesome blog, I like your style!! I also like how the pictures in this one kind of told a story 🙂 I will be making these cookies very soon. Maybe I’ll take pics and share my success or failure on my blog haha.

Don’t know that you are a cook! Your cookies look tasty 🙂
And do I remember the 8-year-old me? I guess I do, especially the Enyd Blyton part. I remember imagining myself being in a group of kid detective and break a case.
Nice post you have!